WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage today introduced new datacenter hard drives that deliver to today’s  modern datacenter architects the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity  3.5-inch hard drive available today. The WD Re+™ hard drive family is the newest  component of WD’s full, tiered portfolio of high-capacity datacenter storage  devices. Further expanding that portfolio will be 6  terabyte (TB) capacities for WD’s popular WD Re™ and WD Se™ datacenter product  lines, providing customers a spectrum of capabilities, tiered to their varied demands of application intensity, power optimization and cost efficiency.
 
  In the modern datacenter, the total cost  of ownership (TCO) formula is comprised of capacity, price, power consumption  and the relationships between these variables. The WD Re+ drive provides the most power efficient and high-intensity  high-capacity platform available today.
 
  With power consumption a primary consideration  in today’s large web-scale cloud infrastructures,  and the WD Re+ drive consuming only 6 watts for 6 TB, customers’ TCOs increase and  savings for large deployments could be millions of dollars per year.
 
  “Dollars  and watts are the finite currencies in the modern datacenter,” said Matt  Rutledge, senior vice president of storage technology at WD. “With a leading  watt-per-gigabyte ratio and the long-trusted reliability of the WD Re hard  drive platform, WD Re+ offers our customers having limited power budgets a WD  Re-class choice for tier-2, high-intensity storage applications. Massive, scale-out  deployments must deliver tremendous value to customers across a range of   applications, while providing a healthy return to the infrastructure owner. WD  is focused on offering that value across its portfolio.”
 
  The SATA 6 Gb/s WD  Re+ hard drive family features a dense five-platter platform, which renders an  optimal mix of low power consumption, high capacity, 24 x 7 x 365-reliability  and affordability. Vibration tolerance and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) are  also key considerations in these applications. WD Re+ hard drives deliver 1.2m  hours MTTF, enhanced RAFF technology to increase vibration tolerance and a high-intensity workload and reliability rating of 550 TB-per-year  workload, the highest workload capabilities of any WD 3.5-inch hard  drive. The new WD Re+ and stalwart WD Re share  a platform to simplify large-scale deployments and provide the reliability and  performance customers have come to expect from WD’s datacenter products.
 
  WD’s award-winning WD Re platform now offers  up to 6 TB for demanding datacenter and cloud storage needs. WD Re hard drives also  are designed to handle up to 550 TB per year in high-intensity datacenter applications.  They offer SATA interface with up to 6 Gb/s transfer rates and sustained  sequential data rates of up to 225 MB/s, delivering performance and reliability  needed in any datacenter.
 
  Other datacenter-class features with the  WD Re and WD Re+ products include:

• Vibration  protection –  Enhanced RAFF™ technology monitors the drive and corrects both linear and  rotational vibration in real time. The result is a significant performance  improvement in high-vibration environments over the previous generation of  drives.
• Dual  actuator technology –  A head-positioning system with two actuators improves positional accuracy over  the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using  conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses  piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of  accuracy.
• StableTrac™ – The motor shaft is secured at both  ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate  tracking during read and write operations.
• Multi-axis  shock sensor –  Automatically detects the subtlest shock events and compensates to protect the  data.
• RAID-specific,  time-limited error recovery (TLER) – Prevents drive fallout caused by the  extended hard drive error-recovery processes common to desktop drives.
• NoTouch™  ramp load technology –  The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less  wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in  transit.
• Thermal  extended burn-in test –  Each drive is put through extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling to  ensure reliable operation.
• Dynamic  fly height technology –  Each read-write head’s fly height is adjusted in real time for optimum  reliability.
• Dual  processor –  Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
• 3D Active Balance™ Plus – Our enhanced dual-plane balance  control technology significantly improves the overall drive performance and  reliability. Hard drives that are not properly balanced may cause excessive  vibration and noise in a multi-drive system, reduce the hard drive life span,  and degrade the performance over time.

The WD Se line of datacenter hard drives provide  a blend of performance, reliability and capacity specifically designed for SMB  to high-end NAS and large-scale datacenter replication environments running   24x7x365. Capacities range up to 6 TB.
 
  Availability
  Shipping immediately to  customers for qualification WD Re+ drives are covered by a five-year limited  warranty. WD Re and WD Se 6 TB hard drives will be available for qualification  next quarter. More  information about WD’s datacenter hard drives can be found on the company  website at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/enterprise/. WD Re+, WD Re and WD Se hard drives  will also be showcased at the Open Compute Conference (booth #C-9) in San Jose,  Calif.